Fibre runners was formed on an early Sunday morning trail run with some friends, we talked of living off the land as we ran and eating what nature provides without explosive incidents.
I am a "teller of stories" so I have been told by a very wise man and here you will find the stories, pick and choose as you see fit.

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Tuesday, 30 December 2014

(Don't) Keep Holding On

Time for round two of running intervals, yesterday was
changed to bike intervals but today I am back to running on the tedious
treadmill.

I see people all the time doing things on a treadmill that I
do not and I wonder if they are right or not. First up is intervals where the
person leaps upwards at the end of the intervals and lands on the outside of
the treadmill off the belt. This looks a simple move, alas it was not for me. Switching
from the speed section to walking saw me have a very near miss which would have
seen me fly backwards off the treadmill… grrrrrr. How do they do it so seamlessly?
For now I will stick to just adjusting the speed accordingly until I am once
again blessed with auto speed buttons on the treadmill which my gym does not
possess.

The second thing I notice a lot and have never once been
inclined (no pun intended) to participate in is the speed walk on a high
gradient whilst gripping with white-knuckled fear to the top of the treadmill
display…. Why? This cannot be good for your back and surely it negates the
whole point of working at a gradient as your body is tilted with the treadmill
and therefore are you not just doing the same thing as if you were on the
flat??